A gallery of pictures of tubers and roots which were harvested in December when I had a blog-free month!
Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) harvest on 24th December 2020; I still have two varieties, a red and a yellow, grown in pots and then brought inside to tuberise (I usually grow under lights, but this year without lights I got a similar yield).
Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) harvest on 24th December 2020; I still have two varieties, a red and a yellow, grown in pots and then brought inside to tuberise (I usually grow under lights, but this year without lights I got a similar yield).
Buds of Lilium martagon var. dalmaticum Ex-“Nauoussa Boutari”
Lilium martagon var. dalmaticum Ex-“Nauoussa Boutari”…a gorgeous dark red form ” introduced by the Alpine Garden Society’s seed-collecting expedition to Greece (MESE) in 1999, named in commemoration of the red wine enjoyed by the team members each evening”!
Lilium hansonii
Lilium hansonii
Lilium davidii
Lilium davidii
Lilium regale
Lilium regale
Lilium regale
Lilium hansonii?
Lilium pyrenaicum: the bulbs of this one are bitter and best not eaten!
Lilium davidii
010818: Lilium henryi emerged overnight!
010818: Lilium henryi emerged overnight!
010818: Lilium henryi emerged overnight!
010818: Lilium lancifolium (tiger lily) will soon be in flower!
From Wikipedia : “Fasciation (pronounced /ˌfæʃiˈeɪʃən/, from the Latin root meaning “band” or “stripe”), also known as cresting, is a relatively rare condition of abnormal growth in vascular plants in which the apical meristem (growing tip), which normally is concentrated around a single point and produces approximately cylindrical tissue, instead becomes elongated perpendicularly to the direction of growth, thus, producing flattened, ribbon-like, crested, or elaborately contorted tissue”
This deviant martagon lily (Lilium martagon) turned up in my garden in 2014. Martagon lily have one of the best tasting lily bulbs, and is a good edible for the forest garden as they are shade tolerant :)
This is what happened when I ate it ;) I’ve now fully recovered :)
An interview with yours truly at Holma Forest Garden in Southern Sweden during my visit in early May. Filmed and produced by Jim Nilsson who did an excellent job I think :) The interviewer is Eric Karlsson!
I was really happy that Alys Fowler agreed to write the book’s foreword. She visited me for 3 days in 2010 when she was writing the book the Thrifty Forager and she devotes a whole section to my garden, its plants and The Modern Monk (guess who) :) In the foreword to my book, there’s a picture of Alys reading my old copy coverless copy of Cornucopia II in the garden!
A Modern Monk in his garden with Lilium martagon in full flower!
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden